Last week, I asked my husband if we could get a Christmas tree this year. He said we can't because we're Jewish. So I asked if we could get a menorah. He said we can't b/c we're nonobservant Jews. Seriously, I'm not allowed to have any fun at all.

I didn't know you were Jewish! Our paper had Hannukah (sp) recipes in it and one was for Latkas potato pancakes..a personal favorite of mine...but I never make them well they alwasy come out mushy instead of crunchy...perhaps they know I am a Christian! LOL I am not giving up!

My Chanukah celebrations consisted of leftover chicken curry and a half-assed attempt to light the menorah in my apartment before realizing:1) I don't have a lighter2) The stove does not function well as one.

Another latke fan here, but I never thought to buy them at a deli -- I've always fried them up myself.

I'm a Christian, but I celebrate all the Jewish holidays. As far as I know, there was never any kind of edict stating that we should stop. My suburban American friends think I'm a little weird. Well, I can't fully disagree with that.

My grandmother always made potato pancakes, even though we aren't Jewish. The trick to making them not mushy is to take the grated potatoes, dump them in a tea towel and wring the heck out of it. This was usually a two person job, to get them dry enough to start the rest of the mixing. :) I like mine with grated onion in them, so i usually grate both, and wring the potatoes first, onions second but in the same towel.

I got lectured on why I DIDN'T have a Chanukah bush, and how "everyone has one."

Main reason, no one in our home is Christian, and my Israeli friends would laugh their asses off.

Well, there's about as much logical unity between Christianity and Christmas Trees as there is between Judaism and Chanukah bushes, so not being Christian is no excuse. Not wanting to take up peculiar and rather costly and time-consuming customs just because everybody does it is, though.

I am an atheist and I enjoy hanging a collection of sparkly crap off a tree in my living room every year. But I don't buy a tree, it's the ornamental fig tree that lives in my living room anyway.

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